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Announcing Preview of New Azure Dlsv6, Dsv6, Esv6 VMs with new CPU, Azure Boost, and NVMe Support

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Jul 16, 2024
Co-authored by Andy Jia, Principal Product Manager, and Misha Bansal, Product Manager, Azure Compute   We are thrilled to announce Preview of new Azure General Purpose and Memory Optimized Virtua...
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bitsonic
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Jul 24, 2024

It's great to see Microsoft finally renewed its virtual machine series since 2021. Can you share a little bit about the timeline for general availability? Thank you. 

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    MasonM
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    Dec 13, 2024

    I'm not Microsoft, but I'll point out that AMD v6 Skus (Eav6, Dav6, Fav6) is now generally available. So if you're okay with running on AMD instead of Intel, that might be a possibility for you.
    https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azurecompute/new-daeafav6-vms-with-increased-performance-and-azure-boost-are-now-generally-av/4309381/replies/4356929